TECH TALK
APPLE ITV PRICE AND SPECS LEAKED
Apple hasn’t even come close to confirming there will be an Apple TV – dubbed iTV in the US – but that hasn’t stopped its specs and price being leaked. Retailer Best Buy carried out a survey asking its customers if they would be interested in a 42-inch, 1080p TV running iOS, with access to the App Store and iCloud. Best Buy reckon it will cost $1,499 (£947). With momentum like this, Apple better had be building a TV or there are going to be a lot of disappointed people.
TOMTOM IS WATCHING YOU
TomTom satnavs will in future help insurers tell the difference between a good driver and a bad one under a scheme designed to revive the Dutch navigation device maker’s flagging fortunes. The company, which made its name as a maker of vehicle-based personal navigation devices (PNDs), said it had teamed up with UK-based insurance firm Motaquote to offer its first new insurance product.
RIM SAYS IT IS READY TO COMPETE
Next-generation software for BlackBerry’s smartphones is “ready to compete”, Research In Motion’s new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, said this week. The Canadian company has lost market share and market value after being comprehensively outplayed by technology giants Apple, Google and Samsung. But it is betting that yet-to-be-released products powered by its new QNX operating system will help to change its flagging fortunes.